Ground Zero

 

Such a disastrous war must never be repeated. At 11:02 a.m. on August 9,

1945, a plutonium atomic bomb detonated approximately 500 meters above

the central monument. Most of Nagasaki was destroyed, and a tremendous

number of lives were lost; about 70,000 out of Nagasaki’s 240,000 residents

died instantly, and up to 60,000 others were injured.

 

The radius of total destruction was approximately 1.6 kilometers, with subsequent

fires spreading across the northern part of the city and extending up to 3.2

kilometers south of the hypocenter.